Degradation of the ethyl glucuronide content in hair by hydrogen peroxide and a non-destructive assay for oxidative hair treatment using infra-red spectroscopy

Forensic Science International

Volumn 244, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-35

  Ammann, Dominic ^a   Becker, Roland ^a   Kohl, Anka ^a   Hänisch, Jessica ^a   Nehls, Irene ^a  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Cysteic acid; Hair testing; HPLC MS MS; Oxidation

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; AMMONIA; CYSTEIC ACID; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCURONIC ACID; OXIDIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; OXIDATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HAIR;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYSTEIC ACID; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GLUCURONATES; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MALE; OXIDANTS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84906732177     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.07.029     Document Type: Article

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